Newsgroups: news.groups
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: news.software.{transports,readers}
Message-ID: <1989Nov29.181020.4861@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <68@van-bc.UUCP> <18904.25725545@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <73@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 89 18:10:20 GMT

In article <73@van-bc.UUCP> jtc@van-bc.UUCP (J.T. Conklin) writes:
>In general, discussions about the news software can be divided between
>readers and transports.

The question is, does this justify separating the two in the news
hierarchy?  Why?

>Something like this:
>news.software.readers.nn
>news.software.readers.rn
>news.software.readers.misc
>news.software.transports
>news.software.transports.nntp
>
>Rather than:
>news.software.b
>news.software.c
>news.software.gnews
>news.software.gnus
>news.software.nn
>news.software.nntp

Can you explain what adding another level does for us?  Apart from
satisfying frustrated would-be librarians suffering from Dewey
Decimal Syndrome, I mean.  Is anyone really likely to confuse, say,
news.software.nn with news.software.nntp?  Is any site likely to want
to get the transport groups and not the reader groups?  What does
the split buy us?
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